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That have you sworn, and I know you will hold your word sacred and keep your oath!" Count Paulo dropped his head upon his breast and sighed deeply. "I must therefore leave her!" said he. "Your own welfare demands it." "But how is she to live during our absence? Our money will not suffice to the end. Alas! we had so surely calculated on this remittance from my estates, and now it fails us!"
They had kept a lodging-house in Sloane Street, which soon became popular with well-to-do young gentlemen, smart soldiers, and budding diplomatists, for both Paulo and his wife understood perfectly the art of making these young gentlemen comfortable. Things went well with Paulo and his wife; their small economies were made into small investments; the investments, being judicious, prospered.
But a romance may be displaced, only to substitute perhaps matters of fact more really touching, by reason of their greater probability. The following is the whole of what modern inquirers have ascertained respecting Paulo and Francesca. All the poems hitherto written upon this popular subject are indeed only to be regarded as so many probable pieces of fancy, that of Dante himself included.
Do you really mean to say, Miss Paulo you are a clever girl, I know, with sound nerve and good judgment do you mean to say that Professor Flick really does know Spanish, although he says he does not understand it? 'I spoke to him a few words of Spanish, and, as it so happened, I looked up at him, and quite accidentally caught his eye under his big spectacles, and I saw that he understood me. Mrs.
The King, summoning Vasco into his presence, offered him the command of the squadron he proposed sending out to discover a way to the East Indies by sea. The cavalier at once gladly accepted the honourable charge, saying at the same time that he had an elder brother, named Paulo da Gama, whom he requested the King to appoint as Captain-Major to carry the royal standard.
Sir Rupert passed along the corridor and stood at the head of the stairs. 'Only a word, Mr. Hamilton. Excuse me for having stopped you so unceremoniously. 'Oh, Miss Paulo, please don't talk of excuses. 'Well, it's only this. Do you know anything about a Captain Sarrasin, who stays here a good deal of late? 'Captain Sarrasin?
What on earth did she want more? It might be that there was danger to Hamilton to Sarrasin to Mrs. Sarrasin to the Duchess to Miss Paulo to some of the servants to her own maid, a great friend and favourite of hers to all sorts of persons. She had to acknowledge to her own heart that in such a moment she did not much care.
As they gazed towards the shore, they could see a number of dark, nearly naked people, their only garments being cloths half-way down their thighs, who came flocking to the beach. A council was held on board Paulo da Gama's ship, when Davane advised that no one should venture on shore without hostages.
"Will not your grace now read the other letter?" he timidly asked, as Count Paulo still remained buried in his silent reflections. "Oh, this unblessed letter!" exclaimed the count, with a shudder. "I tell you, Cecil, I feel that it contains misfortune.
Paulo da Gama spoke in the same way, and with much urbanity, to his people, also promising to intercede for the prisoners. Thus, the crews being tranquillised, they promised to obey the orders of their superiors.
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